Rate My Professor Adam Butz

Adam Butz serves as Department Chair and Professor in Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Long Beach, in the College of Health and Human Services. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky (2012), with majors in Public Policy and Administration and a minor in American Political Behavior, an M.A. in Political Science from the same university (2007), and B.A. in Political Science and B.S. in Business Administration (both cum laude) from Southeast Missouri State University (2004). His research focuses on social policy adoption and administration, administrative contracting and cross-sector collaboration, street-level implementation and administrative discretion, program evaluation and performance, policy innovation and diffusion, the public policy process, race and representative bureaucracy, urban affairs and metropolitics, social equity, organizational behavior, and immigration policy.

Butz co-authored the book Race and Representative Bureaucracy in American Policing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Selected peer-reviewed publications include 'The Color of Corrections: Racial Politics and Prison Privatization' (Social Policy & Administration, 2022, with R. C. Fording), 'Intersectionality and Social Welfare: Avoidance and Unequal Treatment among Transgender Women of Color' (Public Administration Review, 2022, with T. S. Gaynor), 'A Contingent Diffusion Model of Local Climate Policy Adoption: Evidence from Southern California Cities' (Cities, 2022, with B. An and J. L. Mitchell), 'Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and the Adoption of State Immigration Policy' (Policy Studies Journal, 2019, with J. E. Kehrberg), 'Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Stand-Your-Ground Laws' (Politics & Policy, 2015, with M. P. Fix and J. L. Mitchell), and 'Administrative Privatization and Employment Outcomes in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families' (Evaluation Review, 2015). His career includes prior roles as Assistant Professor at Marshall University (2012-2014) and instructor positions at Maryville University, Saint Louis University, and the University of Kentucky. Awards include a U.S. Department of Labor contract ($7,500, 2009), CHHS RSCA Small Faculty Grant ($2,250, 2018), Quinlan Endowment Travel Grants (Marshall University, 2013-2014), and the Malcolm E. Jewell Award (University of Kentucky, 2006). He has advised evaluations for Long Beach city offices, Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board, and other organizations.